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mikesiva wrote:Lewis to Mumbai?

Hamilton?

is he allowed to drive on to the pitch?

which England boys remain unsold?

I know about Root and Morgan. Haven't seen anything about YJB. I think Jordan got a gig, not sure about Billings

good experience for Woody... if he actually gets a game

Durhamfootman wrote:which England boys remain unsold?

I know about Root and Morgan. Haven't seen anything about YJB. I think Jordan got a gig, not sure about Billings

good experience for Woody... if he actually gets a game

Sold- Moeen and Woakes to ECB, Mark Wood and Sam Billings to CSK, Ben and Jos to Rajasthan Royals, Chris Jordan to SRH.

througholy enjoy following the auction on cricinfo, a real highlight! Some suprise buys, some suprise no sales....as always will be backing sunrisers as have done since season 1 when they were deccan! Think we have a very good, balanced, talented squad, could go all the way!

Adi wrote:

Durhamfootman wrote:which England boys remain unsold?

I know about Root and Morgan. Haven't seen anything about YJB. I think Jordan got a gig, not sure about Billings

good experience for Woody... if he actually gets a game

Sold- Moeen and Woakes to ECB, Mark Wood and Sam Billings to CSK, Ben and Jos to Rajasthan Royals, Chris Jordan to SRH.

Moeen and Woakes to RCB.

England unsold : Alex , Jonny, Joe, Tymal Mills, Morgan, Tom Curran, Rashid, David Willey, Ravi, Finn, Gurney,Samit, Plunkett, Denly, Helm, David Malan.

Some franchisee in 2nd or 3rd auction had requested to get David Willey in auction during accelerated round. But I think they could bid successfully for similar role player, so Willey remained unsold.

Billings was sold in 3rd auction round. He was part of DD last year. He is a floater option. Has experience of batting in Asia due to IPL and probably BPL as well. So good backup option for foreign batter.

MUMBAI INDIANS [25 players]

Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Pat Cummins, Evin Lewis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ben Cutting, Mustafizur Rahman, Rahul Chahar, Pradeep Sangwan, Jason Behrendorff, Jean-Paul Duminy, Saurabh Tiwary, Tajinder Dhillon, Akila Dhananjaya, Nidheesh M D Dinesan, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, Mayank Markande, Sharad Lumba, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan

KINGS XI PUNJAB [21 players]
Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Karun Nair, Mujeeb Zadran, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, David Miller, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Singh Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Christopher Gayle, Ben Dwarshuis, Akshdeep Nath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal, Manzoor Dar, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS [25 players]
MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo. Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif K M, N Jagadeesan, Kanishk Seth, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Kshitiz Sharma, Chaitanya Bishnoi

DELHI DAREDEVILS [25 players]
Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Glenn Maxwell, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammad Shami, Gautam Gambhir, Trent Boult, Colin Munro, Daniel Christian, Jason Roy, Naman Ojha, Prithvi Shaw, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Avesh Khan, Abhishek Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Harshal Patel, Manjot Kalra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Sayan Ghosh

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS [19 players]
Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Mitchell Starc, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Nitish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Mitchell Johnson, Shubman Gill, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Rinku Singh, Cameron Delport, Javon Searless, Apoorv Vijay Wankhade, Ishank Jaggi


RAJASTHAN ROYALS [23 players]
Steve Smith, Benjamin Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Darcy Short, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zahir Khan Pakteen, Ben Laughlin, Stuart Binny, Dushmantha Chameera, Anureet Singh, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Midhun S, Shreyas Gopal, Prashant Chopra, Jatin Saxena, Ankit Sharma, Mahipal Lomror

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE [24 players]
Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Chris Woakes, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Brendon McCullum, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Quinton De Kock, Mohammed Siraj, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Colin De Grandhomme, M. Ashwin, Parthiv Patel, Moeen Ali, Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Pavan Deshpande, Anirudha Ashok Joshi


SUNRISERS HYDERABAD [25 players]
David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rashid Khan Arman, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Deepak Hooda, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Kane Williamson, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami, Mohammad Nabi, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sachin Baby, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal

Think I read somewhere that next year the IPL will be held earlier because of the world cup, and that the England players would be pulled out even earlier than that, which may have affected the desirability of the thousands of England players who remained unsold


surprised they didn't manage to get the WC moved to some less inconvenient slot

Durhamfootman wrote:Think I read somewhere that next year the IPL will be held earlier because of the world cup, and that the England players would be pulled out even earlier than that, which may have affected the desirability of the thousands of England players who remained unsold


surprised they didn't manage to get the WC moved to some less inconvenient slot

Not aware that IPL is scheduled early in 2019.

The problem with England players is there base price. Yes some of them deserve that base price but there are better options. Some of these England players many have to consider reducing the base price. Once they get in initial bid there is chance of mini bidding war for someone like Alex Hales, Joe Root , David Willey and Tom Curran. I think when the major auction takes place next time we will see more England players as availability issues will be resolved from 2019 since new FTP.

thought I'd seen this somewhere.......

Considering it is a World Cup year, the IPL would need to end two weeks prior to the global event, as per the Supreme Court of India judgement. ESPNcricinfo understands that the 2019 IPL is likely to end by May 15

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/ ... ailability

Steve Smith goes for over a million, while Joe Root unsold?

I do not understand the mindset of the IPL bidders at all. I guess England players have always been relatively unpopular due to availability/scheduling issues, but still.

Smith has a decent enough record in IPL... Root has none

Half the coaches are Aussies, of course.... which I'm sure helps

Had i been an owner i wou;ldn';t have bid for either of them...both world class players in tests and ODI'S but think there's better players to spend money on in t20 cricket

bigfluffylemon wrote:Steve Smith goes for over a million, while Joe Root unsold?

I do not understand the mindset of the IPL bidders at all. I guess England players have always been relatively unpopular due to availability/scheduling issues, but still.

Smith was captain last year. He also scored a IPL ton last year. His team Rising Pune Supergiant was into finals and lost to a strong IPL team Mumbai Indians which has won IPL thrice. Smith captaincy was one reason. Was with Rajasthan Royals before who are forming a totally new team. So they were looking for a captaincy material I suppose.

England players have suffered due to full availability issues. Also Aussies are widely represented tat even auction table. Moody, Katich and Ricky were bidding for players. There was nobody from England. Even Daniel Christian got in a squad.KKR took him. Katich is Assistant coach for KKR. Surely there were better players at 1.1 cr than Christian who has flopped in IPL.

Moody is coach of Sunrises.

Ricky is head coach do Delhi Daredevil's.

So the Aussie presence is helping franchisees to scout or pick players from Australia.

Whereas there is nobody from England who was at auction table. Also i don't think there is any England coach in IPL. So the advantage of some player being recommended is lost.

Obviously franchisees will pick players irrespective of their is England coach or not. Example Ben, Sam, Jordan, Jos, Moeen, Mark.

Alex was ignored initially because they were was a talk that Alex does not plays spin well. Then it gets compounded with availability for only half season etc. But he may be picked as so.e top order batsman replacement in this addition or future auctions.

Morgan has flopped in IPL. It is understood why nobody placed initial bid for him.

There was some interest for David Willey. I think he will get into IPL.

Tymal Mills flopped totally last year.Dont think he will get into IPL squad again if he does not reduces his base price.

Maybe some more England players will get bid when there are auctions next time because the FTP will mean that all players will be available fully. However, the one challenge will be base price. Some of them have to be wise by setting it lower and then once franchisees start I itial bid there is a chance of mini bidding war to happen which can sky rocket to even surpass the base price by lot more. Also a presence of few England coaches in IPL will help. More if these coaches are on table during auction pool.

IMO the mighty sunrisers strongest side..

Warner (c) (o)
Dhawan
W.Saha (wk)
Pandey
Shakib (o)
Yusuf Pathan
Mohammed Nabi (o)
Bhuvi Kumar
Rashid khan (o)
Sandeep Sharma
Basil Thampi